To keep the devil at bay, her beauty-obsessed kingdom sacrifices unattractive children to hell's entrance every season, prompting plain, poor, plus-sized, autistic Alesta to travel to the very depths of hell to avenge her best friend's death and stop the sacrifices forever. "Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa...

When her last shot at happiness is kidnapped by a mermaid, Jane, who is incredibly plain according to everyone around her, ventures underwater to rescue her maybe-fiancé, summoning her courage, confidence and inner beauty to crusade for the only thing that matters--her independence.

"When Jo-Lynn Kirby 's former best friend--pretty, nice Maddie Price--comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After all, Jo has been an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked--and since everyone decided she deserved it. There's no way Maddie would actually come to her for help. But then Maddie is gone. Everyone is quick to write off Maddie as a runaway, but Jo can't shake the feeling there's more to the story....

"Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they've been since life's creation. The Evolution of an Idea, the second volume of Discovering Life's Story, opens with the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, who attempts to create an organizing system...

"Officer Yumi tracks a murder suspect to a ramen restaurant. Can Conan identify the killer by condiment choice alone? Then Conan and Harley Hartwell investigate a death on the set of a zombie movie, only to be attacked by the walking dead! And Serena starts a band, but her music career skips a beat when a drummer is murdered--and Sera remembers a fateful encounter with a bass player who may have been one of the Men in Black!"--

"When a tabloid publisher is murdered, the hardest part of the case may be finding someone who doesn't want him dead. A cold case heats up when a body is found with the character for "death" written nearby. And when the Junior Detective League stumbles ona crime while camping, Anita risks exposing her secret identity. As he solves these cases, Conan keeps running into three suspicious characters"--

"You can count on Mr. Moore to show up at the scene of a crime--provided the crime is at a bar! Between cocktails, Mr. Moore tries to solve the murder of a corporate executive as well as the mystery of how he keeps falling asleep and solving cases withoutknowing it. Conan may have the solution... Then a simple infidelity investigation turns into a murder case for teen detective Sera. And a man is killed in a porta potty--and Serena's boyfriend Makoto...

Zephyr, now a god in a warrior's body, faces challenges as she strives to support her lordess Xin Ren in a tumultuous political landscape, and is determined to overcome fate and make her enemies pay, even when confronting a revelation about Crow's true allegiance.

A baseball pitcher and a student umpire fall for one another against league regulations and must keep it secret.